1. Sorrows of Boyhood. No. 1. “I’ll tell the Master.” Albert F. Bellows. Published by McKim & Cutter, Charlestown, Mass. Handcolored lithograph. 1852. J. H. Bufford’s Lith. Boston. Image 14 5/8 x 11 5/8” (37 x 29.5 cm) plus title and margins. Good condition. #93636-1 $800.00
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This issue of Portfolio is dedicated to Kenneth M. Newman who passed away on May 8, 2018, a little shy of his 91st birthday. Ken is remembered as an expert in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art. He was a tireless promoter of Audubon, Currier & Ives, American city views, early American imprints, and maps. He started working with his father, Harry Shaw Newman, after serving in WWII in 1947. He also served as editor to Portfolio for over thirty years. This issue is dedicated to the prints Kenneth Newman appreciated. Kenneth Marshall Newman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on June 23, 1927, to Harry Shaw Newman and Helen Marshall Newman. Kenneth was their second child, his older sister was Ann. Harry S. Newman was hired to run The Old Print Shop in the fall of 1927 by Edward Gottschalk’s estate. The contract included an option to purchase the gallery which he did in October 1928. Kenneth’s childhood was growing up during the Great Depression. He was young but remembered times of want, common during this era. It caused him to be thrifty, not only with money, but with material items as well. One of his competitors once called him a squirrel, because he would purchase items for future sale rather than immediate sale. Kenneth dropped out of high school in 1945 and joined the Navy. He was a late arrival to the ship in the Philippines in the summer of 1945 just prior to the surrender of Japan. He returned to Galveston, Texas, where he was discharged in 1946. He moved back to Orient, New York, to the home his parents had purchased in 1938. There he took a job as a carpenter, as he was good with his hands and enjoyed wood working. He worked for a time with a local contractor before his father convinced him that working in The Old Print Shop would offer him a career that carpentry would not. In 1947 he began working at The Old Print Shop. Shortly thereafter, he built a two-car garage at his parents’ home, and in the 1950’s built his own home in Orient after marrying Jerie Reeves on June 15, 1953. For sixty-six years Kenneth was in the gallery (1947 to 2013), retiring on his 86th birthday. As a gallery owner he was always ready with a smile and positive greeting to everyone who walked in the gallery’s door. He believed that if you helped and supported your customers, they would purchase something and come back. He assisted many customers building important art collections through the years. Today, the gallery is primarily known for American printmaking and maps; however, back in the 1970’s there were folk art carvings, a shelf for old ship models, a shelf dedicated to decoys, even a position for an antique clock. When one sold, another was brought forward. Today, these items are only found in specialty antique shops. As the market changed during the 1970’s and 1980’s, the focus of the gallery also changed. Painting prices were the first to rise sharply, then American folk art. Prints were less appreciated and had always been the main focus of the gallery; therefore, Kenneth focused his efforts on American printmaking. The next change was in 1980 when Kenneth’s son, Robert, brought in early twentieth-century American prints. Kenneth’s other son, Harry, joined the firm a few years later and added new life into the map department with scholarly research.
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Photo by Bruce Byers, c.2012
Jerie and Kenneth at the Country Store, Orient, NY, 2016.
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American Town Views Kenneth M. Newman promoted town views. He felt they showed a piece of American history that was being forgotten. Many important artists produced views during the nineteenth century including William J. Bennett, John William Hill, Fitz Henry Lane, Archibald Robertson, Edwin Whitefield, and many others. Kenneth enjoyed the later bird’s-eye views and the earlier landscape style city views. He was especially driven by the extreme rarity of some views. Smith Brothers, who produced thirty plus views of American cities, was one of the publishers he sought out. He also pursued extremely rare city views. One very rare view came up at auction in New England in the early 1980’s. The print was A View of the First Cities of the United States by J. L. Bouquet de Woiseri. Very few people even knew the name Bouquet de Woiseri, as he only did a handful of items. Kenneth knew the artist because he had owned other views by the artist including the spectacular view of New Orleans. He was also aware that the shop had never sold this print before. A few days before the auction, another dealer called him, likely the only other person who recognized the artist’s name. He asked Kenneth “what are you doing about the Bouquet de Woiseri,” without hesitation he said “I am buying it” and he did. Like many extremely rare prints, it was not framed well and needed restoration. The print was also mounted to an acid board. When it was conserved and removed from the board, he saw on the verso, an unrecorded first state of the print. This was a printing proof, two images on one sheet, which added the impossible to rarity. To this date, no other impression of this image has surfaced. It was that institutional knowledge that Kenneth had that will be missed at The Old Print Shop.
2. View of Wilmington, Del. From the Newport Road. Edwin Whitefield. Two-stone lithograph, 1852. Drawn from nature and on stone by E. Whitefield. Lith. of Endicott & Co. N.Y. Image size 15 x 31 1/2” ( 38.2 x 80 cm) plus margins. Fair condition. Split in half vertically in center. Original 1/2” margins with 3/4” added. Uncolored. Reps, View and Viewmakers #660. #92228-1 $9,500.00 Numbered key identifies 17 prominent businesses, public buildings and locations. Very rare, only one example located by John Reps which resides at the Historical Society of Delaware.
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3. Syracuse, N.Y. Published by Smith Bros. & Co. 225 Fulton St. N.Y. Two-color lithograph with handcoloring, undated c.1852. Lewis Bradley del. On stone by D. W. Moody. Image size 21 1/4 x 35 9/16” (54 x 90.4 cm). Fair condition, good color. A brilliant impression, tear in right margin 8” into color, small tear in title margin, backed on Japan paper. Reps #2908. #58134-1 $12,500.00 A rare view of the city. The Smith Brothers over an eight-year period published a remarkable group of American city views.
4. View of Richmond, VA. John W. Hill - (1812 - 1879). Lith. & Published by Smith Brothers & Co. Multi-stone lithograph, 1853. J. W. Hill, del. Drawn on stone by Fanny Palmer. Image size 20 1/2 x 37 1/4” (52.2 x 94.5 cm). Fair to good condition. Several tears within the image. Professionally conserved. Reps, #4127; Deak, 647. #67651-2 $12,500.00 This rare view shows Richmond from Manchester on the south side of the James River.
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5. View of Baltimore City. Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co. Baltimore, MD No. 3 North Liberty Street. Multi-stone lithograph, 1850. Drawn from nature and on stone by E. Sachse. Reps notes that he could only locate one example of this state. Image size 18 1/4 x 27 3/8� (46.4 x 69.6 cm). Very good condition and color. Deak Picturing America 601; Reps, Views and Viewmakers #1286. #94381-1 $9,500.00 First large view produced by Sachse. The view shows the city from the Washington Monument looking towards the harbor. Three states are known of this print. The first state was published by Casimir Bohn. The second state (this example) printed by E. Sachse & Comp. and published by Sachse. The third state was printed by Sachse alone.
6. View of Baltimore, Md. From Federal Hill. Three-stone lithograph, 1847. Drawn from nature and on stone by Edwin Whitefield. Printed by F. Michelin, 111 Nassau St. N.Y. Image size 21 5/16 x 39 1/2� (54.8 x 99.9 cm). Fair condition with original printed color. There are several vertical creases that have been backed, and there is some splitting to these creases, along with several skillfully repaired tears. A rare print. Reps #1281. #4067-1 $8,950.00.
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Town Views A sample list. We have an extensive collection of early American city views and an extensive collection of nineteenth-century maps of American cities. If you are interested in collecting a piece of the history of your town or the town in which you grew up, a visit to the gallery or our web site will be rewarding. 7. Bird’s Eye View of Marysville and Yuba City, Cal. and Surrounding Country. Published by the Marysville Daily and Weekly Democrat. Lithograph, 1888. 18 3/4 x 30 3/4” (47.5 x 78 cm) plus text and margins. Good condition. Black & white. Reps Views and Viewmakers #143. #76389-1 $2,750.00 8. Bridgeport Conn. and Environs, From Old Mill Hill. Published by John Cornwall, 1 Sterlingblock, Bridgeport Conn. Two-color handcolored lithograph, 1857. Drawn from nature and on stone by W. Staengel, 66 Cannon St. Print of A. Weingartner’s Lithy. 87 Fulton St. N.Y. Image size 18 3/16 x 27 13/16” (46.1 x 70.7 cm). Good condition and color, save for tears top center and right center. Reps #526. #44364-1 $5,900.00 9. Chicago in Early Days. 1779-1857. Copyrighted 1893 by Kurz & Allinson, 76 & 78 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ills. Two-color lithograph. 1893. Image size 16 3/4 x 23 1/4” (42.6 x 59 cm). Very good condition and color. #44753-3 $1,250.00 10. City of Burlington, Iowa. William Bourne. Lith. by Endicott & Co., New York. Lithograph, printed in color. 1858. Drawn by W. Bourne. Image size 26 1/2 x 18 1/2” (67.5 x 47.1 cm). Good condition and color, save for minor stain in lower right and upper left. Reps, #1005; Reps, Cities of the Mississippi, pp. 49, 227. #44329-1 $7,750.00 11. View of Belfast, Me. : From Roger’s Hill, 1853. G. H. Swift. Lithograph. 1853. G. H. Swift Del. Tappan and Bradford’s Lith. Boston. Image size 14 5/8 x 29 1/4” (37 x 74.1 cm). Generally good condition and color, save for creasing and two large stains in upper part of image, a tear into the color on the right margin, mat line, and staining in margins. Reps #1185. #46533-1 $6,500.00 12. View of New Bedford. From the Fort near Fairhaven. Fitz Henry Lane 1804-1865. A. Conant [Boston]. Two-stone handcolored lithograph, 1845. Printed by Lane & Scott’s Lith. Tremont Temple, Boston. Image size 16 1/4 x 25 1/8 “ (41.3 x 63.8 cm). Good condition and color. Some modern handcoloring as well. Reps #1552. #43749-1 $15,000.00 13. Valley Forge, Pa. Published by James B. Moyer, W. C. No. 64 P.O.S. of A. Myerstown, Pa. Two-color lithograph, 1890. A. E. Downs Lith. Boston. Image size 18 7/8 x 26 1/4” (48 x 66.4 cm). Good condition, save for some minor discoloration marks mainly in the margins. #36827-1 $2,500.00 14. Bird’s eye view of Rochester : Strafford County, New Hampshire, 1877. From a Position, East of Town. Pub. by J. J. Stoner, Madison, Wis. C. H Vogt & Co. Lith. Milwaukee. Two-stone lithograph, 1877. Image size 18 1/4 x 22” (26.5 x 55.9 cm). Good condition. Reps #2267. #25167-1 $1,200.00
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Maritime Images – Sailing, Steam and Whaling. Kenneth liked maritime images, paintings, prints, and, as mentioned before, ship models. Ship models stopped being handled by the gallery in the late 1970’s. We still occasionally have a fine marine painting, and we continue to have one of the finest collection of maritime prints. This is the only section that will have a Currier & Ives because the gallery plans a catalogue dedicated to prints published by the firm later. As many of Portfolio readers know, Currier & Ives produced over 7,000 lithographs on almost every subject including marine. This section is featuring some very rare and important whaling images. Today, whaling images are politically incorrect; however, it was not only a major industry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whale men did not always win. The images on the far right are after Garneray. Kenneth tried to purchase the prints every time he found them. They are the most famous whaling images ever produced. The pair was mentioned by Herman Melville is his great work, Moby Dick. In the early 1950’s Kenneth traveled to Maine. It was a trip he would do at least once a year through the 1980’s. During this trip he found six Antonio Jacobsen paintings, which were $100 each so he purchased them. His father scolded him for paying too much, as each needed framing and some minor cleaning. In his opinion, they were only worth $300 each at the time. The cost of cleaning and framing used up most of the profit. Kenneth did what he became so famous for he put them away. A few years later he pulled them out again. His father inquired where they came from, and he reminded him he purchased them in Maine for $100 each. This time he was congratulated, as they were now worth $1,200-1,500 each.
15. South Sea Whale Fishery. : A Representation of Boats attacking a Sperm Whale from Descriptions given by Experienced Masters and Officers in the South Sea Fishery. William J. Huggins - 1781-1845. Aquatint and engraving handcolored, 1834. Painted by W. J. Huggins, Marine Painter to his Majesty, and Published at 105 Leadenhall Street, London. Engraved by E. Duncan. Image size 16 x 25” (40.6 x 63.5 cm). Fair condition, color faded. Rubbing in margins and small tear in lower right corner. Brewington #153. #43972-1 $9,500.00
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16. Peche de la Baleine. Whale-Fishery. [and] Peche du Cachalot. Cachalot Fishery. [pair]. Drawn by Louis Ambroise Garneray - 1783-1857. Paris, Publie par Goupil & Vibert, Boulevard Montmartre, 15 & rue de Lancry, 7. Aquatint and engraving, 1835. Martens sculp (Engraved by Martens). Image size 22 1/4 x 31 3/4” (56.4 x 80.5 cm). Very good condition. Full original margins. Framed in gold ogee with French mats. Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, Prints #196 & 197. #80509-2 $45,000.00 This pair is the finest of all whaling images ever produced. They are mentioned in Herman Melville’s great work Moby Dick. “But, taken for all in all, by far the finest, though in some details not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to be anywhere found, are two large French engravings, well executed, and taken from paintings by one Garnery. Respectively, they represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. . . .“
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17. American Steamboats on the Hudson. : Passing the Highlands. Charles Parsons (1821-1910). New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. Multi-stone lithograph, 1874. Parsons & Atwater, Del., Currier & Ives, Lith. Large folio. Image size 19 3/8 x 33” (49.2 x 83.8 cm). Good condition with original color. Cunningham #196. #91204-1 $5,000.00
18. The Yacht “Maria” 216 Tons. : Modelled by R. L. Stevens Esq. Built by Mr. Capes 1844 and Owned by Messes J. C. R. L. & E. A. Stevens of Hoboken, N. J. . . . New York Published by Currier & Ives 152 Nassau Street. Two-color lithograph handcolored, 1861. C. Parsons del. Lith. Currier & Ives New York. A fine example of this print. Large folio - image size 17 5/16 x 27 1/2” (44 x 70 cm). Good condition and color. Some minor repairs to outer right margin. Conningham #6805. #79237-2 $4,250.00
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19. Narraganset Steamship Co’s Steamer PROVIDENCE. New York & Boston via Bristol, R.I. Endicott & Co. Lith. 59 Beekman St. New York. Two-stone lithograph handcolored, c.1867. Image size 19 x 33” (48.3 x 83.8 cm). Good condition and color, save for crease and tear skillfully repaired, tear down center of print. #8326-3 $3,500.00 The Providence was one of the finest and most beautiful steamships that ran between New York and Boston (actually between New York and Providence, R.I. with railroad connections to Boston).
20. The Yacht Squadron at Newport. [14 yachts identified above title]. Published by Currier & Ives 125 Nassau St. New York. Lithograph printed in color, 1872. Large folio image size 16 7/16 x 27 15/16” (41.8 x 71 cm). Very good condition. Extra large margins. Conningham #6816. Gale #7375. #30546-2 $5,000.00 Yachts identified, left to right, “Dauntless, Peerless, Fleetwing, Palmer, Wanderer, Rambler, Magic, America, Dreadnought, Clypso, Columbia, Tarolinta, Sappho, Madeline.”
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Advertising Broadsides – Locomotives Kenneth really enjoyed ephemera. He promoted advertising broadsides throughout his tenure at The Old Print Shop. Steamships, manufacturing, clipper ship cards, trade cards, Kenneth appreciated the quality of craftsmanship in the printing and the history of how manufacturers promoted their products. Locomotive broadsides – Locomotive advertising in most cases was the highlight of advertising printing. Because they had to impress the the railroad executives and their financial backers, the lithographs were lavishly produced. The locomotive manufacturers increasingly were machine shops who were trying their hand at large scale manufacturing. Some lasted a few years, others many decades. Their lithographs showed the quality of the product they were offering. Today, we know the old steam trains as black; but when they rolled off the builder’s line, they were colorful with polished brass. We are pleased to have in stock a good collection of locomotive broadsides and other material relating to the railroad industry including railroad maps and picturesque views by Currier & Ives and others.
21. Lawrence Machine Shop. Lawrence, Mass. Engine “Abbott Lawrence.” Chromolithograph, 1850s. No artist or publisher listed. Two vignettes in upper corners showing front and rear of Lawrence Machine Shop. “Passenger Engine. 22 Tons.” in lower center. Lower left “J. H. Page, Treasurer, 14 Kilby St. Boston.” Lower right “J. C. Hoadley Agent, Lawrence, Mass.” Image size 19 5/16 x 30 1/4” (49.1 x 77 cm). Good condition and color. Several repaired tear, one three inches into image in top margin. #95454-1 $8,000.00
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22. Boston Locomotive Works : Holmes Hinkley, Agt. : No. 580 Harrison Avenue, : Boston Mass. Engine “Rapid.” R. C. Wright. Published by J. H. Bufford’s Lith. 313 Washington St. Boston. Chromolithograph, c.1850s. Image size 18 3/8 x 27 5/16” (46.7 x 69.5 cm). Good condition and color, save for occasional spotting in image. #95452-1 $5,000.00
23. Rogers Ketchum & Grosvenor : Paterson N. J. Engine “New Jersey.” Plate on engine “RK &G. Paterson N.J.” J. C Pennington. Published by Endicott & Co. N.Y. Chromolithograph, c1850s. Framed in nineteenth-century bird’s-eye molding. Image size 24 x 39 3/4” (61 x 101.2 cm). Overall in good condition. There are several tears, two in the right margin, one in the cab roof. All professionally repaired. Original color. #95456-1 $8,000.00
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Historical and Genre Kenneth always said you can learn a lot of history by looking at prints. My brother, Harry, and I often look at ourselves as historians: researching, learning, and then promoting small pieces of American history one print at a time. Genre images allow us to see how we lived in a different age, how we interacted with one another, the clothing, and tools that we used, giving us a small window into our collective past. Some historical prints are rare and almost unique, others turn up but are highly sought after. The image below, Washington Crossing the Delaware, does turn up; however, it is an image that is so well known in American history that it is reproduced in text books. The monumental painting - twenty-one feet long hangs in the Metropolitan Museum. Leutze commissioned Goupil to publish the engraving in 1853. Item 25, Consecrated to the Memory, is a very rare image. It is a memorial to Alexander Hamilton. Most of us know that Hamilton and Burr had a duel and Hamilton lost. However, not as many people know that the duel was perpetuated over political differences. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr not only disliked each other, they were on the opposite political spectrum. Although Hamilton lost his life, Burr’s political career was also over. Therefore, the United States lost two great politicians, over political differences. Fortunately, we found better ways to debate our differences than with a gun.
24. Washington Crossing the Delaware. Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). New York, published by Goupil & Co. Engraving, 1853. Painted by E. Leutze. Engraved by Paul Girardet. Printed and published by Goupil & Co., Paris. Copyright 1853 by M. Knoedler, New York. Image size 22 3/8 x 38 5/16� (56.9 x 9.75 cm). Good condition with original color. #90136-5 $8,500.00
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25. Consecrated to the Memory of Gen. Alexander Hamilton. No publisher or artist noted. Stipple and line engraving, Undated, c.1805. J. Scoles, Sculpt. “Gen. Hamilton Departed this life July 12th 1804.” A very rare memorial. Image size 13 1/2 x 18” (34.5 x 45.7 cm). Good condition. #93789-1 $20,000.00 The two female figures on either side of Hamilton’s monument are Liberty on the left and Columbia on the right. Liberty is holding a liberty pole, a staff with a Phrygian cap. Columbia is seen holding the American Flag, the fifteen star, fifteen strip flag authorized by the Flag Act of January 13, 1794.
26. A View of the Landing the New England Forces in ye Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745. . . . J. Stevens Pinxt; Brooks, Sculp. Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, & Carrington Bowles. . . . Copper plate engraving. 1747. Image 12 7/8 x 19 3/8” (32.8 x 49.2 cm). Good condition with fine original handcoloring. #94826-1 $15,000.00 The fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island (called by the French, Isle Royale. In May 1744, the French governor of the fortress of Louisbourg, initiated a round of hostilities by capturing the New England fishing station at Canso, Nova Scotia. British colonies of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and New Hampshire raised troops, New York sent guns, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey sent money. The fortress was captured by the New England force under the superb leadership of William Pepperell.
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27. Coming to the Point. William Sidney Mount. Published by William Schaus, New York. Lithograph handcolored, 1855. Wm. S. Mount pinx, 1854. Soulange Teissier lith. Image size 19 1/16 x 23 1/8� (48.4 x 58.6 cm). Good condition and color, backed on Japan paper. Cowdrey & Williams #XXV. Frankenstein #8. #17290-6 $8,500.00
28. The Power of Music!. William Sidney Mount. Published by Goupil, Vibert & Co. 289 Broadway, New York. Lithograph. 1848. Painted by W. S. Mount. Leon-Noel fec. (on stone by). Paris Goupil Vibert & Co. Editeurs. London E. Gambart & Co. Publishers. Image size 14 5/8 x 18 5/8� (37 x 4.72 cm). Good condition, save for some repaired tears in the outer margins. Lower portion of dedication line trimmed. Original handcoloring. #64-8 $6,000.00
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29. Mexican News. Richard Caton Woodville. Published by the American Art Union, New York. Engraving, 1851-53. Engraved by Alfred Jones. Printed by J. Dalton. Image 20 1/2 x 18 3/8” (52.3 x 46.7 cm) plus title and margins. Good condition, save for tear in right margins, 1/2” into image. Professionally repaired. Black & white. #18557-6 $2,250.00 Richard Caton Woodville’s 1848 painting War News from Mexico was very popular and remains one of the most recognized American genre paintings. The American Art-Union purchased the painting in 1849 and commissioned Alfred Jones to make an engraving.
30. Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate on the Compromise Measures 1850. Published by James M. Edney, New York. Lithograph. 1860. Image size 21 11/16 x 29 5/8” (55.2 x 75.3 cm). Good condition. This example lacks lower title “in the Great Debate on the Compromise Measures 1850.” #34281-4 $2,450.00
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MAPS – Old Maps for Sale! We do not know exactly when the map trade began in the United States. We had map publishers very early in our history; however, the selling of old maps is a twentieth-century item. The Old Print Shop began handling maps in the late 1930’s. Harry Shaw Newman learned the map trade from Henry Stevens who had left London early in WWII. Kenneth really embraced maps publishing a number of Portfolios dedicated to antiquarian maps. During the early years (1940-1970), there was not a lot of research on maps and cartographers. The dealers knew what was rare and what turned up. When Harry S. Newman, Jr., came along, he took over the promotion of maps and he expanded the knowledge in The Old Print Shop. Due to his father’s health, Kenneth took over traveling to Europe in the 1960’s. On a trip in 1965 Kenneth was offered 45 copies of the Ortelius Americae Sive Novi Orbis, a map showing North and South America. The dealer was R. V. Tooley, a legendary map and book dealer in London. The collection contained every known variation of the map and color variations from original to modern. The maps were $25 each. We were selling them at the time for $100 each, so it was a good purchase. Today, the map sells for $6,000 to $10,000 depending on state and quality. Under Harry’s leadership we continue to have an extensive collection of antique maps of the United States and all around the world. If you are interested in old maps, a visit to the gallery or our web site will be quite rewarding.
31. Map of Long Island, and the Southern Part of Connecticut. Published by G. W. & C. B. Colton, New York. Lithograph, 1871. Retains but removed from original hard covers. Image size 22 x 51 1/2” (55.8 x 130.8 cm) including decorative scrollwork border, plus margins. Good condition save for some minor splitting and faint browning along folds. Professionally conserved. Original handcoloring. #85796-1 $4,250.00 A fine large-scale pocket map of the island, color-coded to the various townships of the time. The Long Island Rail Road shows only the main line that runs to Greenport. Today, the Port Jefferson Branch ends at Northport. The south side railroad ends at Patchogue. The Sag Harbor branch originates at Manorville.
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32. A Map of ye English Empire in ye Continent of America : Viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Iarsey, Carolina, New England, Pennsilvania. Richard Daniel. Sold by R. Morden at ye Atlas in Cornhill neer ye Royal Exchange, London. Copper plate engraving, 1679, (1684). Image size 19 5/8 x 23 1/4” (49.9 x 59.1 cm) plus margins. Good condition, save for some faint water stains in the lower portion. Original outline coloring. McCorkle, New England, 679.1 (notes); Cumming, Southeast In Early Maps, 82; Stevens & Tree, Comparative Cartography, 19b; Burden, Mapping of N. America II, 514; Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude, Custis Atlas, 69. #80423-1 $60,000.00 Rare and important English produced map of the American Colonies. The main map covers an area from the North Carolina-Virginia border to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada with the inset map covering the Carolinas to northern Florida. It is the earliest map of the region that is based largely on contemporary English sources. Cartographically, this map is primarily based on three sources relating in turn to the areas of New England, New York/New Jersey, and the Chesapeake Bay. In the case of the two southern most regions, the map relies on the Augustine Herrman map of the Chesapeake Bay. For the New England section of the map, it relies on the William Reed map of 1665. The inset map of Carolina is based on Ogilby and Moxon’s map of 1672 and delineates via a dotted line and outline color the explorations of John Lederer. There are three states of the map: 1679 by Robert Morden and William Berry; 1684 (this example) and again 1712 by Christopher Brown. Changes from the first to second states include the addition of Philadelphia. Richly embellished with images of flora and fauna, ships, whales and even a scene of whaling off the southern coast of Long Island. From an historical point of view, the map provides a scarce record of English settlements of the time. Engraved by Walter Binneman. An important and very rare piece of Colonial American cartography.
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33. America sive India Nova. Michael Mercator. Published by Rumold Mercator, Duisburg. Copper plate engraving, 1595 c.1633. Latin text. “40 M” on verso. Issued in the 1616 and 1619 editions of the atlas. 14 3/8 x 18 (36.7 x 45.7 cm) plus margins. Good condition with old color, save light marginal soiling and repairs. Burden Mapping of North America, 87; Goss, Mapping of North America #19. #30300-2 $5,000.00 Michael Mercator, grandson of Gerard, engraved this plate, the only known printed map by him. Cartographically, this map was based on Mercator’s landmark world map of 1587.
34. America. Published by J. Hondius, Amsterdam. Copper engraving, c.1606. French issue, 1630 (Phillips, Atlases, 441, #160). Image size 14 3/4 x 19 3/4” (37.3 x 50 cm). Good condition save repair near lower centerfold. Black and white. #150 in Burden Mapping of North America. #10432-1 $7,500.00
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35. The United States of North America: with the British Territories and those of Spain, according to the Treaty, of 1784. Published as the act directs Feby. 11, 1796 by Willm. Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross. Copper plate engraving, 1796-c.98. Image 20 5/8 x 24 1/2” (52.2 x 62.2 cm) plus margins. Good condition. Original hand coloring. Printed on 1794 J. Whatman watermarked paper. #29913-3 $4,500.00 This map was first issued in 1777 with the title “The British Colonies in North America.” Over the next sixty plus years at least fourteen various states appeared. This particular impression is from the sixth state.
36. Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atique Brasiliae, . . . Theodore de Bry. Copper plate engraving, c.1592. Image size 14 1/4 x 17 1/4” (36.1 x 43.8 cm). Good condition, narrow side margins. Early twentieth-century handcoloring. Burden, #80 Mapping of North America #80. #9272-3 $7,000.00 First state of two of this highly decorative map of the Spanish possessions in the Americas. It is from the third part of de Bry’s Grand Voyages
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Twentieth-Century There is no question that Kenneth M. Newman was a great promoter of nineteenth-century images. When his son, Robert, joined the firm in 1979, he advocated to push into the early twentieth-century American prints. In 1980 Kenneth allowed Robert to begin purchasing. His first purchase was a Thomas Hart Benton lithograph. Kenneth liked the representational artists and enjoyed less the abstract and modern movements. The three artists listed here Kenneth really enjoyed. Martin Lewis – When the shop began handling Martin Lewis’ drypoints, Kenneth asked why we did not handle them sooner. He not only appreciated the images but enjoyed the history and story of New York City that the artist captured. It was also an era he remembered. The Old Print Shop took over representing the artist’s estate in 1987. Today, we offer one of the largest collections of the artist’s work, prints, drawings, and even some paintings available for purchase. Frank W. Benson – America’s sporting artist. Kenneth was a duck and pheasant hunter and like many sportsmen he also gave back. After his retirement he started raising pheasants and releasing them in the wild. He enjoyed the many images that Benson created, many in the Ipswich marshes in Massachusetts. Stow Wengenroth – Kenneth actually owned a Wengenroth long before we started handling twentieth-century prints. Kenneth collected prints of the American flag and the lithograph, Bird of Freedom, by Wengenroth shows a bald eagle standing in front of the flag. Today, there are several others including a wonderful Wengenroth dry brush drawing in his collection. We have an extensive collection of twentieth and twentieth-first century printmakers.
37. Rainy Day, Queens. Martin Lewis (1881-1962). Drypoint, 1931. Edition 100, recorded impressions 70. Signed in pencil. Image size 10 5/8 x 11 7/8” (27 x 30.1 cm). Very good condition. The Prints of Martin Lewis. A Catalogue Raisonne by Paul McCarron #94. #9907-7 $50,000.00 This is one of Martin Lewis’ finest rain images. The location is “Skillman Ave. Queens.”
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38. Duck Blind. Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Etching, 1925. Edition 150. Fifth state of five. Signed in pencil. Image size 7 3/4 x 10 3/4” (19.2 x 27.3 cm). Very good condition. Paff #245. #43851-1 $7,500.00
39. Down East. [Port Clyde, Maine.] Stow Wengenroth (1906-1978). Lithograph, 1958. Edition 40. Signed in pencil. Inscribed “Ed/40.” Image size 9 x 15 3/4” (22.8 x 40 cm). Very good condition, save for faint mat line. Stuckey #249. #43852-1 $2,750.00
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40. THE FRUITS OF : Arbitrary Power; or the BLOODY MASSACRE, : Perpetrated in Kingstreet, Boston, by a Party of the XXIXth Regt. : In which Mess. Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, were killed. . . . . Printed for and sold by W. Bingley, in Newgate-Street, Price 6d. Engraving, 1770. “Six others were wounded, two of them [Christopher Monk and John Clack] mortally.” Image size 8 13/16 x 8 5/8” (22.9 x 21.9 cm). Overall in good condition. The image and text are intact with no loss. At one time it looks like the piece was fitted into a small frame. The upper title block was likely folded under and the side margins trimmed close to the neat line. It has been professionally conserved and has been drum mounted onto 18th-century laid paper. Brigham plate 19. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, British Museum, v. 5, # 4839. #73875-2 $40,000.00 This is the fourth of the 1870 Boston Massacre images published. The first was by Henry Pelham, the second by Paul Revere, and the third was by Jonathan Mulliken. The rarest is the Pelham, followed by the Mulliken then Bingley. The composition closely follows the Henry Pelham. There are some changes that were added in the Paul Revere image, namely the addition of “Butchers Hall” on the building at right and the omission of “G.R.” on the sign of the Custom House also on the right. Therefore, it is very likely that the engraver had both versions when he engraved this variation. Proof impressions before letters are in the American Antiquarian Society and the John Carter Brown Library. This is a rare English variation of the Pelham and Revere prints. It is important as it shows support for the American cause in England.